SethRudy

SethRudy, 1 month ago to random

My thoughts and prayers go out to #voyager1, which after journeying for half a century to reach interstellar space is still expected to answer fucking work emails

SethRudy, 1 month ago to random

Yeah sure by all means, let’s integrate AI into more parts of a college that can’t make sure the fucking classroom projector is always working

SethRudy, 1 month ago to random

You have been installed as the president of an Ivy League university (condolences)! How would you try to resolve what’s happening on your campus? Realistically?

SethRudy, 1 month ago to random

Let’s see here…what seemingly minor or straightforward thing are our institutions and leaders going to demonstrate themselves incapable of handling today…hmmm…

SethRudy, 1 month ago to random

The dog next door can see me through my kitchen windows and barks at me in my own house; I am at war with this dog

SethRudy, 1 month ago to random

I am being mugged #caturday

SethRudy, 1 month ago to random

Is there a way I can reframe my total lack of productivity as some form of protest?

SethRudy, 1 month ago to random

Thrilled to have received a micro-grant for my research funded by the Institute of Cash Found in Old Coat Pockets (ICFOCP).

SethRudy, 1 month ago to random

“My kid’s having a meltdown” is obviously a phrase of the nuclear age. What did parents say before? Kid’s doing a Hindenburg? Staging a Vesuvius?

SethRudy, 1 month ago to random

Have I been playground parenting too long or is it normal to say “ hey, play nice!” to two robins fighting in the birdbath

SethRudy, 2 months ago to random

The Botanic Garden had a guy in a bunny costume today.

Daughter: what is Easter
Me: it’s when Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus
Daughter: is Jesus a bunny
Me:
Daughter: js that the Jesus bunny
Me: I really want to say yes to this

SethRudy, 2 months ago to random

Fuck it, I’m going outsource all my medical needs to ChatGPT and just do whatever it tells me. Experiment on myself like Newton stuffing bodkins into his eyes, like Humphry damn Davy huffing nitrous and getting fucked up with STC, jacking my immunity up with pus from every sick animal on God’s mean earth, like a boss, like a man, like an American with American health insurance

SethRudy, 2 months ago to random

Watching Northern Exposure last night and we started wondering what was the first will-they/won’t-they, and we argued about whether to count Dido and Aeneas

SethRudy, 2 months ago to random

This is truly a golden age of petard-assisted autohoisting

SethRudy, 2 months ago to random

I want royalties or a percentage on my students’ subsequent accomplishments

SethRudy, 2 months ago to random

Thoughts when watching the Manchurian Candidate: wow what a complicated conspiracy, why not just fund some debt-ridden asshole idiot to run for office

SethRudy, 3 months ago to random

Ok look, I don’t know if literally everybody was kung fu fighting, but it seemed like a lot of people, and for reasons described elsewhere it was hard to keep track.

SethRudy, 3 months ago to random

If we don’t rapidly integrate AI into all academic curricula, students will not be able to compete in the marketplace for the very few jobs and potable water left as a result of rapidly integrating AI into all academic curricula

SethRudy, 3 months ago to random

My car would not start today, and I stand in solidarity with it.

SethRudy, 3 months ago to random

“Is it over?” he asked, where “it” could rightly refer to any number of things.

SethRudy, 3 months ago to random

Me, ten years ago: I can reach all my students
Me, five years ago: I can reach half my students
Me, two years ago: I can reach some students
Me, now: there’s got to be one body I can pull out of this train wreck

SethRudy, 3 months ago to random

If the Feds ever seize my phone they’re going to uncover some seriously damning text messages about certain university press editors and the state of the academic humanities

SethRudy, 3 months ago to random

Has the groundhog come out, looked around, and suffered a complete mental breakdown yet

SethRudy, 3 months ago to random

A whiteboard in the philosophy dept hallway asks weekly open-ended questions and people write their hot takes. This week’s is “what gives a government legitimacy?” so I wrote “farcical aquatic ceremonies.”